IMMIGRATION

With less than three weeks before the new fiscal year begins, negotiators are continuing talks on a compromise budget using elements of the different spending plans passed by the state House and Senate.

Starting next summer, immigrants without legal status in Massachusetts will have access to state-issued driver's licenses thanks to a policy muscled through by lawmakers this week over Gov. Charlie Baker's veto.

A University of Massachusetts Amherst study recruited people within the Bhutanese community to deliver culturally-appropriate interventions.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has vetoed a bill that would allow immigrants without legal status to get driver's licenses. But the legislature gets the final word.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday vetoed a bill making immigrants without legal status eligible to seek state-issued driver's licenses, saying the Registry of Motor Vehicles, an agency that he oversees, doesn't have the ability to verify the identities of potential applicants.

A photo can tell quite a story, and for the photographer, it's a way to talk about something without words. As a form of community development, a college student recently set out to get a photo project going in western Massachusetts, in a city she was surprised she didn't know much about.

Last week, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill which will allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.

Technical details between Massachusetts House and Senate versions of the immigrant driver's license legislation must be worked out by lawmakers.

The Massachusetts Senate has voted in favor of granting undocumented immigrants the ability to obtain driver's licenses.

The HUSKY health program in Connecticut will now cover undocumented youth up to age 12.